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I read the articles and yes, it's probably like you said, there are a grey area in which not suing an infringer does not neccesarily lead to trademark abandonment. However it will probably apply differently in different countries or states in the US.

Well, I hope these guys from RotT had got the appropiate permission from Disney and avoid all the trouble.

Well, I do not think so, I never participated in the development of FreeCraft, I wish I had been involved, because I love the games (War1, War2 and Starcraft) and I want to learn how to make them. Do you have any insights from that time I will probably need? Don't know for sure if the Stratagus engine is still in active development. When I get some more knowhow I would love to help in the development of the engine.

Yeah, I downloaded already and I'm playing it. Despite some bugs people has mentioned (I haven't got any yet), I think is very good. I'm glad they did it and revive the memories of the DOTT game into this new game. I'm excited about it, and hope they don't have any legal issues.

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I get what you said, and agreed with all. People doing fan versions of games should try not to give any chance for the original IP owner to ask for a takedown. Specially if they are doing a new version of the original IP, and they think it might affect their sales. It would be a shame to take down a project like this, because all of the hard work put in to it, and for what I seen so far it is a good fan project.

That said, what I'm doing is not a fan project per se, is more like a remake for modern computers of Warcraft 1 and 2, but seeing this opens possibilities for me to create maybe new fan campains and stories. I'm doing it because Blizzard has said publicly that they will not do a remake/remastered version of Warcraft 1 or 2, and I just want to play those games in modern computers without DosBox and with somewhat modern standars for RTSs. I know it's not very logical, specially because there are others projects (wargus project here http://wargus.github.io/) and remakes of these games on the internet, but the main reason I'm doing it is because I think I will learn a lot (also the nostalgia of doing one of my first games I played). If in the end I can't publish it (I would always publish it for free) or I receive a takedown notice, well, the project will remains with me. In that case I'll decide what to do with the graphics and logos and trademark names, and maybe create a whole new game, I don't know.

Hi, I just want to know if there is any legal (copyright or intellectual property) issues for you releasing this fan project. Did you have any problems using the characters? Did you use the original characters or replicate them yourself? Did you ask for permission first to use them?

I'm asking because I'm doing something similar with another old game, and I haven't done any search yet about this legal issues that may come if I publish it, even for free.

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